{"id":1119,"date":"2009-09-22T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2017-06-26T21:33:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T21:33:37","slug":"i-spent-most-of-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 22nd September 2009 – I SPENT MOST OF THE MORNING …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fitting<\/a>… putting these two crossbeams in. This is where the door into the room will be.<\/p>\n

You can see that the old beam in centre-pic is pretty well eaten. I can’t rely on that supporting the weight of people continually coming and going, especially when I knock down the wall underneath it in the very near future, and so it needs plenty of reinforcement to spread the load.
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\"fitting<\/a>But these beams have to go in exactly right if they are to do any good. Millimetre-perfect is almost essential so you have to cut the lets undersize and the beams oversize and file them down until they fit. That’s what takes the time.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I was interrupted by a couple of visitors. Firstly, Terry and Liz turned up, to borrow back their cement mixer. Terry, keen reader of my blog that he is, has suggested that I go with him tomorrow late afternoon to collect a ton of gravel and take it to his house.
“You have to say the magic words”<\/span> I said.
“Liz is baking”<\/span> he replied.<\/p>\n

After Terry and Liz left I carried on and fitted some more flooring and tried out Rhys’ idea of screwing the plasterboard. Lucky I bought a pile of 4×60 screws. And with the drill on the lowest speed setting and with a low torque setting it drove the screws up nicely. I’ll try some more of this.<\/p>\n

But I wasn’t at all in the mood for carrying on working as my second group of visitors brought me some news that has left me numb. Followers of my blog from its previous home will recall that back in early spring I had an “interaction” with a local farmer that got rather out of hand and attracted the attention and involvement of the local gendarmes<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Criminal charges were preferred and a summons was issued, and when the gendarmes<\/em> went to serve it on the aforementioned farmer, I very much regret to say that they discovered him no longer in a position to receive it.<\/p>\n

I’m totally devastated by this as I’m sure everyone else in the locality is. I don’t hate anyone at all so much that I wish them dead. This guy, much as he was a thoroughly obnoxious character, was quite simply a guy living a traditional French peasant lifestyle and caught up in a changing world with which he was in no condition to cope. <\/p>\n

I just hope that wherever he has ended up, he is happier there than he clearly was round here.<\/p>\n

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